The Challenges of Divine Determinism

Furlong, Peter

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“…Furlong follows White in his understanding of determinism. 15 Furlong and White follow Kane in their understanding of 'determinism' as hypothetical necessity. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says that this is the dominant sense for compatibilists: Journal of Reformed Theology 18 (2024) 151-172 Spinoza's Ethics (1677[1992]) is an important departure from the above dialectic.…”

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Muller’s Compatibilism

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2024

J. Reform. Theol.

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The present essay addresses Richard Muller’s most recent comments regarding the Reformed Orthodox in comparison with contemporary compatibilism. Muller’s work is undeniably excellent. However, it suffers from a considerable weakness. That weakness is his lack of interaction with contemporary compatibilism. This causes him to misunderstand its nature and falsely claim that the Reformed Orthodox cannot be labeled as compatibilists. I argue that a more serious analysis of contemporary compatibilism shows that the Reformed Orthodox are correctly labeled as compatibilists. I do so by examining Muller’s main claims as to why the Reformed Orthodox were not compatibilists. In this examination, I argue that he has misunderstood the thesis of compatibilism and confused it with other metaphysical doctrines.

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Section: Determinismmentioning

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Muller’s Compatibilism

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2024

J. Reform. Theol.

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“…This would be to give up on the intuition that massive manipulation removes responsibility. 58 The divine determinist might have to bite the bullet here and claim that people like Ernie are responsible for their actions, even while many people find it intuitively implausible.…”

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How the Cognitive Sciences Might Contribute to the Theological Debate about Free Will

Visala

2021

Modern Theology

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This article argues that recent results of the cognitive sciences could make significant contributions to theological debates about free will, but they have been largely ignored by contemporary systematic and philosophical theologians. Recent work in cognitive psychology and moral psychology has to do with our intuitive and automatic patterns of reasoning in the domains of freedom and responsibility. This research will be relevant for many theological domains and has the potential to raise new issues and problems. The essay examines three such domains. First, the debate between intellectualist and voluntarist accounts of the will have been central in theology. Recent findings suggest that intellectualist accounts of the will have more intuitions on their side than has been previously assumed. Second, theologians have debated whether belief in free will is central for moral and political life. This question was pertinent during the Reformation when many of the reformers either rejected free will or presented truncated accounts of it. Recent results from moral psychology suggest that belief in free will has significant pro‐social and altruistic effects. Finally, the possible compatibility of divine determinism and free will is crucial for theological debates about sin, grace and God’s providence. Recent psychological results point in the direction of affirming that while most humans have strong intuitions about the incompatibility of free will and divine determinism, these might be based on a false inference. Finally, some new counterintuitive challenges about the manipulativeness of God are raised against the divine determinist position.

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In defense of flip-flopping

Bailey

Seymour

2021

Synthese

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The Challenges of Divine Determinism

Cited by 8 publications

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Muller’s Compatibilism

Muller’s Compatibilism

How the Cognitive Sciences Might Contribute to the Theological Debate about Free Will

In defense of flip-flopping

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